One reason why Wal-Mart installs so many cameras

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: For [IP] One reason why Wal-Mart installs so many cameras
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:38:22 -0500
From: Tom Rombouts <rombouts () compuserve com>
To: dave () farber net <dave () farber net>

Hi Dave -

In the recent documentary film "Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price" there
is a segment near the end on crime in Wal-Mart parking lots.  (My synopsis
- their many security guards are intended mainly to protect inventory, not
customers.)  One case was shown where a young woman was abducted in a
Wal-Mart parking lot, and then killed.  Some people pointed out that the
store where this happened had a number of surveillance cameras mounted on
the roof overlooking the parking lot.  The cameras were working, and the
film includes some chilling still images of the abductor approaching his
victim.  As it turned out, no one had been monitoring the cameras.  The
cameras had actually been installed at that Wal-Mart location to help fight
potential union organizing activity in the parking lots!

TWR

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